Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a division of the Media Research
Center (MRC) that tracks the liberal bias of the New York Times. You can follow Times Watch on Twitter and Facebook.
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5/7/2008 9:37 AM ET
Manohla Dargis tries to make summer moviegoers feel guilty about the lack of women in films: "All you have to do is look at the movies themselves - at the decorative blondes and brunettes smiling ...
5/6/2008 2:27 PM ET
Sarcastically criticizing Hillary, the Times unleashes its inner Republican: "She raises eyebrows and arms in exaggerated indignation. Students who take jobs they do not particularly want after ...
5/6/2008 1:40 PM ET
Eric Eckholm on two studies of the drug war: "More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising."
5/6/2008 1:13 PM ET
But a new USA Today/Gallup poll found the opposite to be true: "One-third of likely voters say Obama's ties to Wright make them less likely to vote for him."
5/5/2008 7:46 PM ET
Robin Toner's still whining about Michael Dukakis: "[In 1988] the Republicans used the symbols of nationhood (notably, whether schoolchildren should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance) ...
5/5/2008 1:56 PM ET
Milder-than-expected job losses in April nonetheless spurred a lead story shouting the loss as "powerful evidence that the United States is almost certainly now ensnared in a recession."
5/5/2008 1:28 PM ET
To attack Hillary Clinton's "ruthlessness," the Times takes an unusual angle of painting the liberal-loathed Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr as a victim.
5/3/2008 10:23 AM ET
Plus Racist Hillary Voters and John "Two Americas" Edwards Takes a Bow
5/2/2008 2:34 PM ET
Monica Davey pitted "artsy" Indianapolis folks vs. "less cosmopolitan" hicks who don't want to vote for a black.
5/2/2008 12:21 PM ET
Discussing an upcoming special congressional election, Nossiter says the word "liberal" is "an unlikely appellation in a state where at most a handful of black politicians from the larger cities ...
5/2/2008 11:56 AM ET
Coverage of illegal immigration rallies, more balanced but still slanted: "...a cloud of fear has settled over immigrants who were worried that the rallies would lead to more sweeps."
5/1/2008 1:36 PM ET
"McCain Health Plan Could Mean Higher Tax," a headline declares, and for once, the Times is not trying to be complimentary. But how are Clinton and Obama planning to pay for their own huge ...
5/1/2008 12:31 PM ET
Michael Powell and Jodi Kantor: "Mr. Obama gave his speech on race in Philadelphia, a long, pained, nuanced take that purchased distance between himself and his mentor, even as he struggled to ...
5/1/2008 11:43 AM ET
One question from a pollster highlighted by the Times: "The anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States is making it more difficult to send money to my family." How, exactly?
4/30/2008 2:25 PM ET
From gay grilling aficionados to flea markets to sex chairs, the Times Sunday edition leaves the NBC anchor a bit bemused.
4/30/2008 1:31 PM ET
But the lead editorial tries to lump in Jeremiah Wright with a McCain supporter, controversial minister John Hagee.
4/29/2008 2:28 PM ET
The Times' front-page story found Wright a little daffy but essentially harmless: "...a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics."
4/29/2008 11:31 AM ET
A voter ID law in Indiana that Linda Greenhouse found "objectionable" was upheld by the Supreme Court 6-3, in what she called a "splintered" decision. But what about close rulings she approves of?
4/29/2008 10:43 AM ET
Overdramatic Andrea Elliott: Opponents of a Muslim public school and its principal Debbie Almontaser are part "of a growing and organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an ...
4/28/2008 1:49 PM ET
Jodi Kantor's "compliment" - Hillary reminds her of Roseanne Barr's sitcom character.
